Karter — #248 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Karter

The Social Security Administration has registered 28,187 babies named Karter between 1985 and 2024, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Karter currently holds the #248 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 2,424 babies received it in a single year. Karter is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 4,330 additional births since 1997.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Karter performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 16,870 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Karter shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 2,592 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Karter in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Karter in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 28,187 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.